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by G.N. Thompson
Mon Feb 20, 2017 4:42 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: CBC News looking for comment
Replies: 19
Views: 5297

Re: CBC News looking for comment

Actually the regulatory has a serious flaw too...see profile and click link to 52 minutes of trying to explain that.
by G.N. Thompson
Wed May 06, 2015 9:26 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Night Flying - Airport Lighting
Replies: 19
Views: 2796

Re: Night Flying - Airport Lighting

You are quite right gents. Having installed a few thousand edge lights...the Westinghouse units are aligned to toe slightly towards the center line and your eyes while on approach. As you get closer the angle increases and it dims a bit. Then there is a reflector inside the glass to block the main g...
by G.N. Thompson
Tue May 05, 2015 4:33 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Hopeless?
Replies: 21
Views: 9344

Re: Hopeless?

So, to finance that: Raising "local funds" from industry should not be difficult considering embarrassment factors, malfeasance, and incompetence we have seen in the past. Each share of the contributions could be based on the ratio of emissions…if Jack puts out 500 metric tonnes per day, and Jill 10...
by G.N. Thompson
Fri Mar 27, 2015 3:18 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Hopeless?
Replies: 21
Views: 9344

Re: Hopeless?

Ahhhhh…well. Fishing is good for us, as it has been since we invented tools. Those of you who like fish are invited over. March 25th 1740Z 1/8 to 1/4 in freezing fog, RVR 900 to1400, ceiling W1-2. The Q is missed... Glacier departing the hold for the alternate…our provincial Senior Environmental Pro...
by G.N. Thompson
Sun Mar 22, 2015 10:24 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Hopeless?
Replies: 21
Views: 9344

Re: Hopeless?

It appears to me both ministries have snoozed thru two important large industrial proposals and the locals are effectively handcuffed.

Going fishing now and will try to regroup.
by G.N. Thompson
Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:39 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Hopeless?
Replies: 21
Views: 9344

Re: Hopeless?

wait for it.... Dear Mr. Thompson: On December 19, 2014, the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister for the Arctic Council, provided me with a copy of your correspondence of September 19, 2014, in which you e...
by G.N. Thompson
Tue Mar 10, 2015 10:22 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Hopeless?
Replies: 21
Views: 9344

Re: Hopeless?

Response from Min Env in part: Edit: "The project underwent a thorough environment assessment by an independent federal-provincial review panel. This review process included extensive, meaningful and respectful consultation with the public and aboriginal groups and provided the scientific and techni...
by G.N. Thompson
Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:58 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Fly Safe
Replies: 2
Views: 1189

Re: Fly Safe

Amen. Hoping you are well.
by G.N. Thompson
Sat Feb 28, 2015 6:54 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Hopeless?
Replies: 21
Views: 9344

Re: Hopeless?

Gentlemen, Maybe I've missed an important angle on this issue. Maybe the points that should have been stressed are: 1. the number of airports, airstrips, gas & oil camps, pipeline patrols, outfitters strips, mines, windfarms etc that use YXJ as their alternate? 2. and then comments as to the reliabi...
by G.N. Thompson
Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:59 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Hopeless?
Replies: 21
Views: 9344

Re: Hopeless?

For example, maybe your picture could show: 1. Why there were 17 aircraft on frequency with no tower? 2. Why we had 41 minutes in the holding pattern? 3. Why we are using so much more glycol? Edit: 4. Why we had 3/4" of frost all over the airfield lighting...what percent of design light output do we...
by G.N. Thompson
Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:59 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Hopeless?
Replies: 21
Views: 9344

Re: Hopeless?

Mr. .. ., 1. You are quite correct. It is a CRJ. My bad. My sincere apology is offered. In fact there are more 3am errors in the presentation that will have to be corrected before I can offer it to UBCM, provincial aviation councils and planning think tanks. Hopefully the points that really matter w...
by G.N. Thompson
Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:36 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Hopeless?
Replies: 21
Views: 9344

Re: Hopeless?

Ahramin: 1. As you have correctly forecasted, the response from EC was clearly from some one learning to speed read who has not looked at industrial pollution through the windscreen. 2. So how did GA become the "enemy"?? I worked for them for some years after graduating from DOT's Air Services Train...
by G.N. Thompson
Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:03 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Hopeless?
Replies: 21
Views: 9344

Re: Hopeless?

Thank you Clutch...I'm thinking it's better in the Q than it would be in the RJs. I would appreciate a comment as to what de-icing costs have done since the mill went in.
by G.N. Thompson
Fri Jan 23, 2015 12:18 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Hopeless?
Replies: 21
Views: 9344

Re: Hopeless?

Hard to remain calm and completely coherent after listening to EC's and TC's presentations...I did not expect to have to try one but it was like the Minister of Enablement had told them to put in a show at the hearing without actually saying anything to do with aviation impacts. EC spent most of the...
by G.N. Thompson
Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:37 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: 1984 Wapiti Aviation Crash Info
Replies: 18
Views: 9662

Re: 1984 Wapiti Aviation Crash Info

That could explain the freezing rain mentioned above. I remember Mr. Notley dropping by the YQU wx stn, was well respected and pretty knowledgeable on aviation subjects. We were told that the trip would often cancel IFR enroute YPE and slide over into the strip. Believe YPE techs serviced the NDB.
by G.N. Thompson
Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:43 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Hopeless?
Replies: 21
Views: 9344

Hopeless?

Honourable Leona Aglukkaq Federal Minister of Environment Honourable Bill Bennett BC Minister of Energy Subject: Site C Impacts on Aviation Weather Reference: www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/documents/p63919/98093E.pdf www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/documents/p63919/98065E.MP3 Dear Ministers, Dating back to 1963 h...
by G.N. Thompson
Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:22 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Icing
Replies: 18
Views: 2690

Re: Icing

Was surprised to hear consultant for big OSB mill admit that at -10C with 8 knot wind their emission was unlikely to freeze but at -20C "most of it will freeze"...so in other words we have super cooled liquid aloft in the control zone for most of the winter. Not nice if buried in low cloud, fog or s...
by G.N. Thompson
Sat Aug 18, 2012 11:12 pm
Forum: ATS Question Forum
Topic: NavCanada and GPS
Replies: 13
Views: 4473

Re: NavCanada and GPS

So, RNAV is approved and the limits have not been raised at any of those runways?
by G.N. Thompson
Fri Aug 17, 2012 12:53 pm
Forum: ATS Question Forum
Topic: NavCanada and GPS
Replies: 13
Views: 4473

Re: NavCanada and GPS

ILS replaced here this summer...appears we now have no back course and are still skipping signal off the snowbanks to the front course?

GNT
by G.N. Thompson
Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:08 pm
Forum: ATS Question Forum
Topic: New Air Traffic Control System to Cut Millions of Tons of CO
Replies: 8
Views: 3393

Re: New Air Traffic Control System to Cut Millions of Tons o

And then, of course, we could stop building huge mills in the middle of our air traffic control zones. That would reduce de-icings, wait time to take off, and maybe we wouldn't have scheduled carriers in the holding pattern for 70 minutes any more.
GNT
by G.N. Thompson
Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:19 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Dawson Creek/ Fort St. john
Replies: 11
Views: 3002

Re: Dawson Creek/ Fort St. john

Water strip still exists beside runway but may have been shortened for new water settling pond...best call Larry Moody as i see his Beech 18 on floats at Swan Lake.

Also DQ has about 35 new wind towers sticking up about 8.3 miles WNW...don't think they are lighted yet. 1 blade = 104 ft.

GNT
by G.N. Thompson
Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:54 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: CYHZ ILS
Replies: 23
Views: 5022

Re: CYHZ ILS

Just a reminder, gents,

There is a snow storm somewhere in Canada every day, and ILS can be upset by:
a) snow depth
b) snow drifts
c) snow blower activity

Fly safe.
by G.N. Thompson
Mon Sep 06, 2010 11:22 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: The beginning of the end for ILS?
Replies: 18
Views: 3301

Re: The beginning of the end for ILS?

I have long wished we didn't have to skip GP signals off the snowbanks. Seems to me there is a storm somewhere in Canada nearly every day.
GNT
by G.N. Thompson
Fri May 14, 2010 4:53 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Sokay, just a nav database error.
Replies: 15
Views: 1847

Re: Sokay, just a nav database error.

This was a much better outcome than Mt. Erebus long long ago. Double check everything.
by G.N. Thompson
Sun Apr 04, 2010 9:16 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Required reading for pilots
Replies: 54
Views: 6307

Re: Required reading for pilots

Destination Disaster...well researched on the DC10 right from the beginning

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